PRESS RELEASE: RICHARDSON, TX – Aug. 16, 2010 – Eltek Valere today announced the Trilogy DC power system, a 40A-600A, 48V high-efficiency (HE) power system with 15” shelf depth and special cable management to fit into short-depth outside plant and central office applications. Although not exclusive to solar applications, the Trilogy DC power plant does [...]

PRESS RELEASE: HONG KONG, August 16, 2010 — APC by Schneider Electric, a global leader in integrated critical power and cooling services, announced the formation of a new specialized data center software business to focus and drive a leadership position across all aspects of the data center environment . The Data Center Software business will [...]

PRESS RELEASE: Brisbane R&D startup Cool Door Pty Ltd has won a prestigious iAward at the Australian IT industry’s biggest annual awards event in Melbourne last week. The Cool Door is an energy efficient cooling solution for data centres invented by Brisbane bayside residents Bernie Gee and Shaun Vosper. The mens’ invention took out the [...]

The Australian government has released an overarching plan to transform its ICT operations with sustainability practices. The Australian Government ICT Sustainability Plan 2010-2015 outlines strategies and actions for its agencies to lower their emissions and is consistent with the current administration’s commitment to reduce greenhouse gas emissions for the country by 60% of 2000 levels [...]

A new report by Pike Research estimates that investment into ‘green’ data centres will increase from US$7.5 billion to US$41.4 billion by 2015, which would in turn equal some 28% of the total data centre market. “Cost of energy has seldom been a concern for IT departments in the past,” says industry analyst Eric Woods, [...]

A new technology that can save as much as 80% on Ethernet networks is now being finalised by the industry. The new standard, called Energy Efficient Ethernet or EEE – also dubbed IEEE 802.3az, brings in a feature called, “low power idle mode,” which allows network equipment to save energy when no carrying traffic. According [...]

Etix DataCenter, a new facility outside Paris, now promises to deliver the lowest PUE (power usage effectiveness) rating in France by introducing a number of green design and technologies. According to the company, the new facility will be designed to deliver a PUE rating of no more than 1.5, which means that at least two [...]

Just after we profiled a company that is building a wholesale data centre offering in Iceland, we learned that browser developer, Opera Software, has also hit upon the same idea – at least about moving its data centre operations to the island nation. According to Norway-based Opera, it is now moving a large portion of [...]

Two years after we first published the Icelandic government’s plans to promote the building of data centres on its shores, a venture capital-backed start tup, Verne Global, is looking to make it a reality. Verne Global, backed by General Catalysts from Boston, Novator in London and the Wellcome Trust, is now constructing a wholesale data [...]

Telecoms power specialist, Lineage Power, has entered a merger agreement to purchase all the outstanding shares of PECO II. “Together, the combined product portfolios and nationwide support infrastructure creates one of the largest and most capable professional services organizations for telecom power in North America,” Lineage Power, a Gores Group company, said. “PECO II’s high [...]